Grandfather, Grandson Make Big Plans

Leon and
his grandson, Leroy, were enjoying a weekend together at Leon's
cabin in the mountains.

The night
before they were scheduled to head back home, Leon asked Leroy,
"What would you like to be when you grow up?"

Leroy
replied, "Well, Grandpa, I'm thinking about working as a truck
driver and using my job as an opportunity to see the
world."

"You might
be able to see most of America like that," Leon stated. "But the
entire world? I don't know about that."

"I've got
it all figured out," Leroy smiled. "After I graduate from high
school, I can enroll in one of those truck driving schools to
learn how to drive a big rig, then get a job driving a truck.
Before long, I will have seen the whole country.

"And the
days I'm home, I'll study foreign languages on the Internet. Then
I'll live overseas for a few years, driving the big rigs in those
countries. I think I'll be able to see many nations that
way."

"I'll say
one thing for you," Leon remarked. "You have so much enthusiasm
that I think you just might be able to pull it
off."

"Thanks,
Grandpa, but being a truck driver is not the only thing I want to
do with my life," said Leroy. "After I retire from my truck
driving career, I want to spend the rest of my life as a
missionary, traveling around the world preaching the gospel of
Jesus Christ. That's after I go to Bible college."

"I'm glad
you're starting you life with so much excitement for the Lord,"
Leon said. "I didn't even ask Jesus to come into my heart until I
was a grownup. If I could go back and do it all over again, I'd
ask the Lord to come into my heart when I was just a little
boy."

"I have an
idea, Grandpa," Leroy said. "When I start driving a truck, you
can ride along with me. And you can join me when I begin my work
as a missionary, and we can travel around the world
together."

"I
appreciate the offer, Leroy," said his grandfather. "But won't I
be getting a bit old by then?

"What are
you talking about?," Leroy shot back. "Abraham's name was still
Abram when God called him at age 75. He was about 100 years old
when his son, Isaac, was born."

"I guess
you're right," Leon said. "In the early chapters of the Bible,
some of those guys lived to be several hundred years old. I'll
only be 70 years old when you graduate from high school, so I
think I'll still be a pretty young man. But no matter how old I
get, I'll always be young at heart."